from these years of transition, chance-fields chance-felder draws the final conclusion. it represents a turning point, to which herman de vries attaches the greatest importance. [herman de vries writes in english: "the results of this research still makes me wondering after all these years." (p. 16 of an unpublished manuscript dedicated to the books that have been the most important to him)] the book holds a selection of abstract drawings accomponied by mathematical formulae that allowed a choice between a great number of other possibilities. but herman de vries writes: "in fact, it is more an essay on the endlessness of chance. the numbers that are calculated for the amount of possibilities in these pages are overastronomic." [herman de vries in a letter to the author, november 7, 1996] the very expression of 'chance-fields' originates from contemporary physics and it expresses a new concept of causality.

the relation between cause and effect is no longer understood as linear, irreversible and simple, but is characterized by reciprocity (feed-back), reversibility and complexity. by bringing into question the so-called intangible principles of classical physics and metaphysics (principle of contradiction and principle of causality) the most recent science seems to acknowledge the intuitions of buddhist thought which favours a non-dualistic, non-binary unfixed understanding of nature with its infinite manifoldness and constant movement.

Source: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, 'beyond language', in herman de vries. les livres & les publications (Cdla : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) 35